31. My family oral history has it ...

that my Grand-mother attempt to visit her sister in Louisianna (circa 1945). She, and another male relative, were met at the plantation gate by several plantation workers and told, "Get away from here as fast as you can ... if you set foot inside this gate, you will never be allowed to leave."

Apparently, the local "tradition" was that any Black person that enter the grounds, with or without invitation, would be arrested, tried and convicted of trespassing (often, without the benefit of a judge or a jury) and sentenced to forced labor at the site of the "infraction."